At their April 25-26, 2023 Richard M. Schulze Board of Trustees meeting, our board awarded over $8.5 million to 168 grantees in Minnesota and Florida.

Education

Human & Social Services

Health & Medicine

  • Avivo f/k/a RESOURCE for Career Education and Employment Services
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Charlotte County for their Summer Brain Gain Camp
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County for their Summer Smarts and Scholarships program
  • Breakthrough Twin Cities for Student and Teacher Support
  • Camp Fire Minnesota for their 2023 Camp Scholarship Program
  • Catholic Youth Camps for their Connects Partnership program
  • Child Care of Southwest Florida, Inc. for General Operations and Hurricane Ian Recovery
  • createMPLS for Creating Access to STEM Learning
  • Cristo Rey Jesuit High School for Expansion of Ken Melrose Technology Lab
  • East Side Neighborhood Services for their Industrial On-Ramp program
  • Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation to Support Young Children’s School Readiness
  • Friends of Foster Children, SWFL for Academic Mentoring of Foster Youth
  • Friends of the Hennepin County Library for Homework Help
  • Fun Time Early Childhood Academy for Educational Programming and Expansion
  • Grace Place for Children and Families for their Bright Beginnings Family Literacy & High School OST programs
  • Guadalupe Center for Early Childhood Education and Out-of-School programs
  • Hope Farm School for educational programming
  • Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis for their ParentChild+ programming
  • Junior Achievement for North High School Entrepreneurship programs
  • KIPP Minnesota for Literacy Revolution 2.0 programLiteracy Council Gulf Coast for ESL Adult and Family programs
  • Salesian Sisters for Guardian Angel Scholarship program
  • Salesian Sisters for St. Elizabeth Seton Tuition Assistance
  • School Sisters of Notre Dame for Living and Operating Costs
  • Southside Family Nurturing Center for Dual Generation Therapeutic Early Childhood Education and Evidence-Based Family Home Visiting
  • The Family Partnership for Multicultural Therapeutic Preschools
  • The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library for Support of Out-of-School Time Educational Activities
  • The St. Paul Seminary, School of Divinity for The Institute for Catholic School Leadership at The Saint Paul Seminary
  • The Works Museum Engineering for All Tree Trust Career Pathways 
  • Vail Christian High School for Faculty Innovation Grants
  • Way to Grow for Great By Eight (K-3rd) programs
  • Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center for Catholic School Scholarships
  • WomenVenture Entrepreneurship for Pathways Scholarship Program
  • YMCA of Southwest Florida for Nurturing the Potential of Every Child program
  • 360 Communities for General Operating Support
  • A Chance to Grow for Teen Parents’ Transportation
  • Agate Housing & Services – The Food Centre for Meals and so Much More
  • Alliance Housing, Inc. for Building Opportunities for Stable Housing
  • Amherst H. Wilder Foundation for Family Supportive Housing Services
  • Ampersand Families for General Operating Support
  • Appetite For Change, Inc. for Meal Box Delivery and Youth Engagement
  • Avenues for Youth for Youth Shelter Programs  
  • Beyond New Beginnings for 20 x 25 program
  • Bolder Options for General Operating
  • Cars for Neighbors, Inc. for COVID Supplemental Repairs Year 2
  • Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis for Family Service Center
  • Children’s Home Society of Minnesota for Children’s Home Adoptee Day Camps
  • Collier County Senior Resource Center, Inc. for Direct Assistance
  • CommonBond Communities for Advantage Services for Low-Income Families 
  • Community Cooperative, Inc. for Emergency Food Programs & Strengthening Families Initiative
  • Conflict Resolution Center for Housing Stability via Eviction Prevention 
  • Cookie Cart for General Operating
  • Cornerstone Advocacy Service for School-Based Services (SBS) Program
  • Courage Kenny Foundation for Kenny Vocational Services 
  • CROSS Services for General Operations
  • Damascus Way Reentry Center for Reentry Program
  • EMERGE Community Development for EMERGE North 4 Project 
  • Emerge Mothers Academy for General Operations in Equipping Mom-Led Families to Build Stability & Thrive
  • Emma Norton Services, Inc. for Emma’s Place Family Housing and Youth Program + Capital for Children’s Playspace in Restoring Waters
  • Epiphany Caring For Life for Life Baby Closet and Traveling Closet
  • Eye-Link Foundation for General Operating Support
  • Family Fest Ministries, Inc. for Scholarships
  • Family Values for Life for General operating
  • Feed My Starving Children for Meal Packing for the Hungry
  • Good in the ‘Hood for Food Programs
  • Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota for Career Training & Education
  • Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery for General Operating Support and Children’s Outdoor Play Space
  • Guardian ad Litem Foundation, 20th Judicial Circuit, Inc. for Children’s Needs Program
  • Headway Emotional Health Services for Family Home Visiting Programs
  • Homeward Bound, Inc. for New Homes for Individuals with Severe and Profound Disabilities
  • HopeKids for HopeDay Programs
  • ICA Food Shelf for Reaching More Neighbors Facing Food Insecurity Programs  
  • Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for New Beginnings Project
  • Interfaith Action of Greater St. Paul for Opportunity Saint Paul program
  • Joseph’s Coat, Inc. for Hygiene Program
  • Keystone Community Services for General Operating Support
  • Kids ‘n Kinship for Mentoring program
  • Legal Aid Service of Collier County for Legal Services to Victims Project
  • Lighthouse of Collier, Inc. for Assistive Technology to Blind/Visually Impaired
  • Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota LSS for Metro Homeless Youth Services and Families Together Therapeutic Preschool programs
  • Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida for Adopt-A-Wish
  • Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Minnesota for Make-A-Wish® Minnesota 
  • Meals of Hope for General Operations
  • Metropolitan State University Foundation for Food for Thought Food Pantry
  • MicroGrants for Microgrants
  • Midwest Food Bank for Florida Food Relief: Transportation-Refrigerated Trailer
  • Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans for Comprehensive Services for Twin Cities Area Veterans
  • Minnesota Independence College & Community as Challenge Grant for New and/or Re-Engaged Donors GiveMN Minnesota
  • Jewish Community Center for Minnesota JCC Youth and Youth Inclusion Programming
  • Minnesota Justice Foundation for Summer Fellowship Program
  • Minnesota Zoo Foundation for DreamNight 2023
  • MoveFWD, Inc. for Transitional Living Program
  • My Very Own Bed for Twin Cities Metro Bed Delivery 
  • Naples Senior Center at JFCS for Alleviating Senior Isolation and Hunger – Lunch and More 
  • Neighborhood Development Center for Business Labs Technical Assistance Services
  • Neighbors, Inc. for General Program Operations
  • Open Cupboard for Today’s Harvest relocation and expansion
  • Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, Inc. for 2023 Working to Wipe Out Hunger
  • Our Saviour’s Community Services for Housing Emergency Shelter
  • Park Nicollet Foundation for Growing Through Grief programs
  • People Responding In Social Ministry (PRISM) for Marketplace Food Shelf
  • People Serving People for General Operations
  • Perspectives, Inc. for Children’s Programming (33 months through 8th grade)
  • Presbyterian Homes & Services for Optage Dining
  • Project Got Your Back for Small Business Foundation Navigator Program
  • PROP Food Shelf for General Operating Support
  • Rebuilding Together Twin Cities for Safe and Healthy Homes for Low-Income Children
  • Ronald McDonald House of Rochester MN Inc. for Annual Operations
  • Second Harvest Heartland for Heartland Urgent Needs
  • Second Stork for Essential Newborn Supplies
  • Sharing and Caring Hands for Mary’s Place Backpacks, Tutoring Program, Winter Coats, & Food
  • Small Sums for General Operating
  • Southern Anoka Community Assistance for General Operating Support
  • Southern Valley Alliance for Preventing Domestic Violence Through Outreach and Education
  • Spare Key for Help Me Bounce program
  • St. David’s Center for Child & Family Development Children’s for Mental Health Assessment, Support and Intervention Pilot
  • St. Louis Park Emergency Program, Inc. for Food Support & Family Stabilization
  • St. Mary’s Health Clinics for Primary Health Care & COVID Safety for the Uninsured
  • St. Matthew’s House for Campbell Lodge Capacity Building
  • St. Paul Youth Services for Pre-Charge Diversion program
  • Standpoint for General Operations Support
  • STARability Foundation for Vocational Services
  • The Aliveness Project Meals and Food Shelf for Minnesotans Living with HIV
  • The Dwelling Place for Transitional Housing and Support Services for Victims of Domestic Violence
  • The Open Door for Mobile Pantry Program
  • Theresa Living Center for General Operations
  • Think Small for Advancing Quality Early Childhood Care and Education
  • Together for Good for TFG Grow: Awareness and Impact 
  • Urban Roots MN for Equitable Youth Development through Paid Internships Programming
  • Volunteers of America-MN for Resilience and Well-Being through Services and Volunteerism
  • Washburn Center for Children for Ensuring families have access to early intervention in mental health care
  • Women’s Advocates for General Operations
  • Wounded Warrior Project, Inc. for Emergency Financial Assistance for Minnesota Warriors & Soldier Ride Twin Cities
  • Wounded Warriors of Collier County for Warrior Homes Veteran Housing and Support Services
  • YMCA of the North for Get Summer
  • Youth Frontiers for Creating Positive Learning Environments Through Character-Driven Leadership
  • Youth Haven for General Operations
  • YouthLink for General Operating
  • A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation for Patient & Family Support program
  • Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Naples for Low-Income Adult Fund
  • Camp Odayin for Minnesota Residential Camp 
  • CaringBridge for Product and Content Development
  • David Lawrence Mental Health Center for Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare for Children & Families 
  • Help A Diabetic Child, Inc. for Insulin, Diabetes Medical Supplies, and Services Initiative
  • Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation for Patient support services and general operations
  • Naples Children & Education Foundation for Healthcare Initiatives Expansion
  • Neighborhood HealthSource for Promoting Pediatric Access
  • Our Lady of Peace Home for General Operating Support 
  • The American Diabetes Association for Camp Needlepoint and Camp Daypoint programs
  • The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Upper Plains Region for Local Patient Financial Assistance Program in Minnesota
  • University of Florida Foundation, Inc. for College of Dentistry’s Children’s Oral Health
  • University of Florida Foundation, Inc. for Supplies for Children in Lee & Collier counties afflicted with diabetes

The above listings do not include all Spring 2023 awards.